How is everyone doing? How is the year going? Finding all you hits and misses? Having fun? Stressed out? (hopefully not) I thought I would check in and see how everyone was doing with the holidays creeping up on us so fast and I know how it can make our schedules go all out the door sometimes. Just hoping everyone is having fun and every thing is going great. It is going great for us still!
hi there well this week we printed out new time tables and took some new approaches with the schooling. I am realy happy with how its going,all of us are.we will soon have a new baby in the house,so we are excited about that. its been a great year in our new house. we do our schedules taking one day at a time,that seems to work best for us thanks for checking,what about you?
we are doing great! Everything is going smooth for us, so I think we found out groove finally! I love it!
Hey hey Joanna! We are still chugging along, I keep the "should we change this up" mentality always and I think I drive myself even crazier that way, but I can't help it. Garrett still likes his TT math, and the littles are having fun counting and doing HOP. We are getting ready to move... hopefully by Thanksgiving, but we aren't holding our breath on the inlaws new house being ready for them to be out of their old house by then, it gets set next Tuesday, the kids can't wait to go up and watch the crane lift all the pieces into place, I can't wait to actually own our own home.. and have so much more space!
we are doing well. we have our groove down, but with sickness in the house... we have been late in starting these days.... I hate allergy season! It get us all messed up. The girls are doing well in school.
We are doing good and finally catching up since we gave up on co-op. I am still trying to get us a decent schedule together to finish our work in a timely fashion, but not having to battle my schedule with co-op and such has been a huge blessing. Oh and trying not to buy things to "supplement" what we are already using. Everything looks so good and it all looks like I could do a bit here and a bit there. Hope everyone is having fun.
We're getting more and more into a groove, but I still (constantly) find my self planning too far ahead and changing my mind a lot. LOL! I don't know that I'll ever get away from that mindset, though.
We are doing great. I have one son (14) and he is in "high school" in a way. We are taking it easy right now and mostly doing math and some reading of his choice. I do expect him to tell me about what he read, which did not go well yesterday. But the reason for this break is so I can totally restructure our high school plan. Plus, my brain needed a break. We are breaking free from the overload of textbooks, although we will use them some. I LOVE teaching textbooks, it rocks. I still help some and try to see where he is strong and where he needs more practice. I am also letting him redo if he misses a lot. Although I haven't decided on how much grading I am going to do, if any. He is doing pre-algebra, because last year when he did it (BJU) he struggled quite a bit and I felt he needed to get the basics done pat before moving on. We started out using a lit book from BJU and honestly it has a lot of good stories. But, since he like the excerpt of Treasure Island in it, I let him choose to read the whole book or just keep reading the short stories/excerpts from BJU. He chose to read the whole book. We may read some more from the BJU later. I like the selections they make. As far as history/geography-I have just about decided on just going with living books. I figure as he reads history we can locate where it happened on a map. I also want to get a huge timeline to mark all the important dates down. I was going to do geography as a seperate class, but honestly I find that boring. I even like learning about other cultures, but to just isolate it and not delve into the history to much is dry IMO. Science is the BIG undecided factor. I believe we may continue to use Apologia, I love the way it is done compared to many other books. I just don't want to be tied to it too closely. I want to be free to explore things further (which I am) or to just not go too deep in some area. I am breaking free from some restraints, but I am not totally free yet! For English, I plan on doing a lot of the grammar type stuff orally with maybe some written work. As far as writing, that is going to come from the stuff I have him write for other classes, such as history. I can't see making him write an English paper and a history paper. We have a good writing curriculum, but instead of following the lessons step by step, we are going to use it as a guide.
We are usually having fun here. This is the first year officially schooling two so finding a ballance with that can be a challenge. DS5 is doing alot more for kinder than DS8 did (and DS8 didn't do kinder until 6) and I am actually not thrilled about that since I believe in delayed start, but I have to give him stuff to keep him entertained or he drives DS8 and I crazy while we are trying to work. I combine them on our thematic units so far we have focused on farms, apples, harvest and now Little Red Hen. For DS5 I am liking Get Ready for the code. Other than that I use cheapy workbooks for numbers and paterns and stuff. For DS8 Horizons math and ETC are going well. Lifepac Language arts is okay, but I am not thrilled by it. He has a map skills book he does once a week and loves. Science and Social studies come from our thematic units.
Darn it Joanna I thought you said check in my post and you were checking in on us. Darn it. LOL nope we are doing great, ready to finish up our semster and go to Disney.
